Another new product has arrived

NEW! Foaming Bath Butter, Paraben Free!

Foaming Bath Butter is a wonderfully unique product - it's the newest innovation in cream soap technology. Foaming Bath Butter is a versatile base that can be formulated into many different finished products.

It has some unique properties...
Luxurious - Cleansing product with the creamy consistency of butter
Versatile - Can be used as a moisturizing body cleanser or as a shave cream

Some of its suggested uses are:
Scented Cream Soap, Sugar Scrubs, Salt Scrubs, Body Meringues, Body Parfaits, Exfoliating Scrubs

You can whip it, blend it, fluff it, or stir it to make your very own creation from Foaming Bath Butter.

More new products for you!

We have had a few more new products to arrive since our move.

Moisturizing Body Spray Base
Our luxury bath/body Moisturizing Base will leave your skin and hair feeling silky smooth! This base will make a nice body mist, body splash, and hair conditioner. Base will take up to 10% fragrance load but typically a 3%-6% fragrance load will yield the best results. Works with most fragrance oils and essential oils.

Soy Lip Balm Base with SPF-15 Sunscreen
This vegan natural lip balm base offers exceptional protection to your lips and is formulated with wax derived from soy beans, luxury oils and exotic butters and does not contain beeswax. It is rich in Vitamin E, made from totally natural vegetable ingredients and contains no animal products. It has a very creamy consistency, is not sticky and is long wearing. No preservative is needed.



NEW FRAGRANCE OILS!

Atlantic Sea Kelp
An upscale spa-type scent that is fresh, clean, and full of salty ozone.
Notes of watery greens are surrounded by white musk and vetiver.





Cranberry Yuzu

An upscale and exotic fusion of sparkling Asian Yuzu with juicy cranberries.
This beautifully balanced medley will please the most sophisticated noses.
Cranberry Yuzu is well-suited for a full line of products: candles, soaps and toiletries.



Frosted Cupcake

A deliciously decadant, moist white cupcake covered in
rich, smooth buttercream frosting.
You can't resist this one - ooh la la!



Clementine Lavender

A calming and balancing scent that is clean and pure.
Herbal French Lavender mingles with fruity notes of sweet clementine and
hints of tangerine. The scent is rounded out and balanced by a bed of
aromatic bergamot and Italian lemon bottom notes.
Clementine Lavender is the perfect choice for aromatherapy and spa lines.

New products are beginning to arrive

Now that our move has been completed we are trying to focus on expanding our line of products. We have MANY new things in the works! Here are just a few things that have already arrived and are now in stock and online:




We now have scales from Escali. Currently there are three styles available: Alimento, Liberta, and Primo. Escali is top of the line!






Use a Pyrex pitcher to make small batches of wax, lip balm base, weigh FO's, and more.






2-cavity Votive Clam Shell Molds. Making votives couldn't be easier!





Lip Balm Tube Filling Tray. The Lip Balm Filling Tray is a great tool to quickly and efficiently fill lip balm tubes. Select a tray to fit either STANDARD or SLIMLINE lip balm tubes. The filling tray allows you to neatly fill up to 50 lip balm tubes at once!



Speaking of lip balm, we have new ingredients for you to craft lip balms. We now carry:

Candelilla Wax
Carnauba Wax
Soy Wax
White Beeswax (pastilles)
Yellow Natural Beeswax (pastilles)
Natural Wax Jelly
(find all these on our waxes page)

We also have new lip balm bases:
Natural Lip Balm Base
Soy Lip Balm Base w/Sunscreen SPF15


We are working to add some new and exciting fragrance oils to the line as well as a Moisturizing Body Spray Base, Artisan's Perfume Base, and other great goodies.

Keep watching this blog for new product announcements!

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A 'Living Green' Tip

Cleaning with Lemons

It seems every cleaner manufacturer is rushing to get on the green bandwagon these days. Clorox just released its new line, Green Works (TM), and you can be sure others will follow. But here's a secret: green cleaners existed long before these products came about. Sorry Clorox!

If you're serious about going green, give lemons a try. They disinfect. They polish. They bleach. And they don't come encased in a plastic bottle with a big price tag attached.

Cut the junk by cutting your disposable drinking cup habit. Instead of a foam or paper cup, sip your daily dose out of your own travel mug if you're on the go, or ask the cafe for a mug if you have a few minutes to hang.

* Cutting waste. If you purchase one cup of coffee every day in a disposable container, you create about 23 lbs. of waste each year.

* Fewer noxious chemicals. Polystyrene (styrofoam) can potentially disrupt your hormones, and the chlorine used to bleach paper cups creates carcinogenic dioxins during production.

* Saving cash. Many coffee houses offer a small discount to customers who bring their own reusable containers.




Thrifty Tip:

I hate to waste Scotch tape by turning the end over to keep it from getting "lost" in those cheap dispensers. Finally I discovered that if I place a bit of plastic cut from a coffee can lid under the end instead, that bit of tape will still be usable (and "findable")!

Our move has been completed

What a MAJOR task, but we're finished! The move took 5 tractor trailers which was more than we expected. Who knew we had so much stuff. LOL It took a bit longer than we anticipated, but everything is now in the new warehouse and things are beginning to come together. Most of the pallets have been unpacked and organized. Heather, the Warehouse Manager has done a fantastic job. So has Christine. They've worked like crazy women getting everything unpacked and organized.

Our shipping schedule has returned to normal. We're caught up now with no backlog. Once we have everything where we want it, I'll post more photos. We'll now have a "sniffy closet" for anyone who wants to come by and smell the fragrances. That will be so much fun!

An update on our move.......

Whew! This has been a huge undertaking and although everyone is nearly exhausted, the end is in sight. We spent all day Friday packing. Monday was spent packing and loading two tractor trailers. The trailers were moved Tuesday and unloaded. We managed to get a lot of the shelving put back together and some of the FO's stored. Today was spent packing and loading the two trailers, AGAIN. We still can't fit in everything, so Thursday morning we're moving and unpacking the two trailers and going back for one last trip of maybe 1/2 to 3/4 load on one trailer. Then we're ready to begin unpacking everything and organizing. I'm hopeful that we'll resume shipping orders sometime between Monday and Weds. of next week.

Things have been so hectic that we've fallen woefully behind on photo taking. Sorry. We'll try to do better. The warehouse space is much nicer than the building we've occupied for the last 4.5 years. However, the office space looks a little tragic - it's vintage, and not in a good way. The office has some early 80's industrial linoleum on the floors and cheap wood paneling. But I believe we can live with it for now.

Here are a few photos from Friday's packing:

We're moving!

We're

Moving!




We will soon be moving to a different warehouse. The move is only 5 miles away, but we have a lot of work to do! We will be closed beginning at 3:00 pm (Eastern time) on Thursday, February 14. We will begin preparing for the move on Friday 2/15 and begin loading the trucks early Monday morning. We anticipate the move to take between 4-10 business days.

Online orders WILL STILL BE ACCEPTED during this time. However, the orders will not ship until we are in our new location. I cannot promise a date on which we will start shipping - it all depends upon how long it takes to move.

Our telephone/fax numbers will not change and neither will our emails. If you need to contact us, please feel free to call. However, I don't know how much we'll be able to help if the computers are not hooked up. We hope to make the move to the new warehouse as smoothly as possible, but there are too many unknowns until we start loading and unloading the trucks.

New products are now available

We've added some new products to the Lip Balm Tubes site.

A main ingredient in the majority of lip balm recipes is wax. We are proud to now offer all-natural waxes fit for lip balms, lipsticks, and even body butters, creams, lotions, lotion bars, hair pomades, soaps and candles. Our pure and natural waxes are petroleum free and all-natural. We offer 100% Soy Wax, Natural Yellow Beeswax, White Beeswax, Candelilla Wax, Carnauba Wax, and Natural Wax Jelly. We've also added our first Natural Lip Balm Base.

For the vegan conscious formulator we suggest our Soy Wax, Candelilla Wax and Carnauba Wax. These are not only vegan friendly, but all-natural and eco-friendly as well.

When you choose LipBalmTubes.com as your natural wax supplier, you're choosing ingredients that are sourced from the highest quality raw materials available. We want only the best for our customers.

Soy Wax
Natural Yellow Beeswax
White Beeswax
Candelilla Wax
Carnauba Wax
Natural Wax Jelly
Natural Lip Balm Base

We've also added a yummy flavor oil to the Lip Savors collection - Lemon Cheesecake.
Rich, creamy cheesecake infused with fresh lemon juice, notes of a crumbly graham cracker crust and a finishing hint of a cream dollop sprinkled with lemon zest. Purely delicious and mouth-watering!

Don't forget to get a Pyrex pitcher and lip balm tube boxes to help you with ease of crafting and fantastic finishing touches!

It's all about the scent........

Fragrance Blotters




Blotters (test strips) are the industry benchmark for fragrance creation and testing. When you sniff a scent straight from the bottle, you are smelling mostly top notes while missing the middle and bottom notes. Blotters solve this problem! Bend the tip of the blotter at about 1/4" to 1/2", then dip the tip into the fragrance. Let it sit for a minute or two, and then wave it under your nose - you'll get a better experience for all the fragrance's notes! Blotters measure 5" x 1/2" and have a wide base for writing scent names. Use blotters to test all your new fragrances, or take to shows and markets to let customers sample your scents. Package of 100 for $4.99.

You can find the Blotters on our Equipment page.

I hope you'll take a moment to visit this site and begin (or continue) to take steps to be carbon neutral. Planting a tree helps enormously!





I am always searching for ways to be better to the environment. Diligent recycling has become a part of my daily life and planting trees can help further reduce carbon footprints. We are searching for new ways to be more environmentally efficient at our warehouse and will keep you posted with updates!

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Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings from AromaHaven/Rustic Escentuals and LipBalmTubes.com















Greetings!

We will be closing soon for a holiday vacation and end-of-year inventory. I wanted to take a moment to let you know that we at Rustic Escentuals and LipBalmTubes.com are very grateful to have you as a customer. We appreciate your support this year and hope that your inner creativity continues to flourish. Best wishes this holiday season and we look forward to serving you in 2008.

We have prepared two short surveys on how we can better serve you in 2008. We hope that you'll take a couple of minutes to complete the surveys - we value your feedback.

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New Products for 2008

We will be closed for inventory and holiday vacation from 12/22 through 1/1. Any orders placed after 2:30 pm (Eastern Time) on Friday, December 21st will ship upon our reopening on Wednesday, January 2nd. Online orders WILL still be accepted while the warehouse is closed and will ship on 1/2/08. Thank you for your continued patronage and we hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

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Vacation Schedule

We will be closed for holiday vacation from 11/21 through 11/25.

Online orders WILL still be accepted during this time and will ship upon our reopening on Monday, November 26. Any orders placed after 3 pm (Eastern time) on Tuesday 11/20 will ship on 11/26.

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New Product Announcement

New Product Announcement!


Lip Savors Cosmetic Flavor Oils












The Lip Savors™ flavor collection is here!
Lip Savors™ are cosmetic flavor oils designed for use in lip balms, lip glosses, lipsticks, and edible massage oils.
These flavor oils are oil soluble and unsweetened.


New flavors now available:

Asian Pear
Bubble Gum
Butter Pecan
Buttery Toffee Crunch
Cappuccino
Chai Tea
Cherry Berry (Jessica Simpson type)
Cinnamon Supreme
Creme de Menthe
French Vanilla
Gingersnap
Iced Pineapple and Tangerine
Mango Peach Fusion
Mint Truffle
Orange Sorbet
Red Delicious Apple
Sugared Strawberries
White Chocolate

Click here to view Flavor Oils online

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Tues/Weds - Blog reader SALE

Here is an special sale for blog readers:

16 oz. bottles - $2 off each if you purchase 5 or more.
(discount does not apply to 7 lb. jugs or 25 lb. cans)


Please note that we are closed from 6/29 - 7/6. Online orders WILL still be accepted during this time and will ship when we return on July 9.

Discounts will not appear in your shopping cart. You must put "Blog Sale, 7/4" in the Special Messages section of the shopping cart during checkout in order to receive your discount. When we see your notation, we'll adjust the total due before your credit card is charged.

This is a great opportunity to sample some of the new fragrance oils for soaps and candles: Movie Night, Calabrian Bergamot & Violet, Prada type, Blackberry Crisp, Berry Bundt Cake, Bartlett & Basil, Pumpkin Cheesecake (a MUST HAVE for fall!), White Grape, and Vanilla Crunch. We even have formulated a BODY SAFE version of our bestseller Celtic MoonSpice.

Sale is good from Tuesday, 7/3 through Wednesday, 7/4.





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Sunday/Monday - Blog reader SALE

Hi blog readers - I hope all is going well for you on this lovely weekend!

Here is an special sale for blog readers:

4 oz. bottles - 4 for $20

Please note that we are closed from 6/29 - 7/6. Online orders WILL still be accepted during this time and will ship when we return on July 9.

Discounts will not appear in your shopping cart. You must put "Blog Sale, 7/1" in the Special Messages section of the shopping cart during checkout in order to receive your discount. When we see your notation, we'll adjust the total due before your credit card is charged.

This is a great opportunity to sample some of the new fragrance oils for soaps and candles: Movie Night, Calabrian Bergamot & Violet, Prada type, Blackberry Crisp, Berry Bundt Cake, Bartlett & Basil, Pumpkin Cheesecake (a MUST HAVE for fall!), White Grape, and Vanilla Crunch. We even have formulated a BODY SAFE version of our bestseller Celtic MoonSpice.

Sale is good from Sunday, 7/1 through Monday, 7/2.

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Vacation Notice - but watch for SALES!

The warehouse will be closed from Friday, June 29 - Friday, July 6. Online orders WILL STILL BE ACCEPTED during this time and will ship upon reopening on Monday, July 9. Heather, Marie, Ava, and Valentina need some rest and time off. However, Amy will be manning the computer while everyone is off playing. :)

Watch this blog for special SALES during our vacation! Take advantage of some daily sales while the warehouse is closed. Please remember that although orders will be accepted during vacation, boxes will not ship until Monday July 9.

Happy Independence holiday!

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